The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 29 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing VBA 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.531% 0.752% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.660% 3.125% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53 64 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 27.04% 24.06% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 33
Average daily rate £350 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
Average hourly rate £34.13 £35.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -26.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VBA
East of England

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VBA across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bedfordshire VBA Jobs Demand Trend

VBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VBA across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBA across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bedford - 1 - -
Luton - 1 £350 -
VBA
East of England

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing VBA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VBA.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VB
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WF
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) MVC

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing VBA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) MS Access
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VBA Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Report Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft